Features of English as a lingua franca in academia
Features of English as a lingua franca in academia
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英语作为学术界通用语言的特点
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2010
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Anna Mauranen
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Anna Mauranen
在作为通用语（ELF）的英语中，共同构建交际效果往往具有挑战性：就文化知识和语言规范的共同期望而言，说话者的交流空间要小得多。大学环境为至少分享学术惯例提供了一个方便的背景——尽管这些惯例的差异可能比这些活动类型的统一标签所推测的要大。本文以ELFA为数据库，研究了学术ELF的语篇特征和词汇语法特征。数据由口语组成，它提供了对正在进行的话语中意义协商方式的直接访问，并且语音事件通常是多逻辑的。ELF话语需要参与者的密切合作，这反映在其增强的明确性中。说话者表现出的显化策略促进了相互理解，并有助于多参与者群体中的社会凝聚力。这些策略还有助于克服参与者在处理与普通英语作为母语（ENL）的各种形式偏差时可能遇到的潜在问题。大多数情况下，ELF与标准英语非常相似，但早期的ELF特定发展的迹象也很明显。
Co-constructing communicative effectiveness is often challenging in English as a lingua franca (ELF): speakers have considerably less to go on in terms of shared expectations of cultural knowledge and linguistic norms. A university environment provides a convenient backdrop for sharing at least academic conventions – although these vary more than might be surmised from the uniform labelling of such event types. This paper looks into some discourse and lexicogrammatical features in academic ELF, using ELFA as the database. The data consists of spoken language, which provides direct access to the ways in which meanings are negotiated in ongoing discourse, and the speech events are typically polylogic. ELF discourse requires close cooperation from the participants, which is reflected in its enhanced explicitness among other things. The explicitation strategies speakers display facilitate mutual comprehensibility and contribute to social cohesion within the multi-participant groups. Such strategies also help overcome the potential problems participants might have in dealing with a variety of formal deviations from ordinary English as a native language (ENL). Most of the time ELF bears a very close resemblance to Standard English, but signs of incipient ELF-specific developments are also in evidence.